Just picturing an alien archaeologist “so, as they stopped being crippled by polio or losing their lives building railroads, they complained about having to wash the dishes?”

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what fucking quality of life is it if I have a phone that sucks ass, and no house to call my own?

EDIT : phones in general suck ass, I’m not saying my phone is worse than someone elses. That’s part of the problem that they’re all “pictures under glass” unwieldy, fiddly pieces of shit

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Have you been recruited to go die in a trench? Or seriously worry about starving to death? Or watched a child die of measles, smallpox or whooping cough? Been a literal slave who could be whipped?

Hell, would you even trade places with the children who made your shirt?

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Amazing reference, I love smbc.

But, here’s how I imagine our complaints sound to oh, most of the world today:

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I mean, by 1400 the world population was comparable to the modern US. It merely broke the billion people mark by the early 1800s, it took merely another century to double that, and it since did more than 4x straight to 8.2 billion people, so even if the proportion of whiners stayed the same, there’d be so many more of them. Now, to that, consider we now have access to the internet.

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Oh yeah, it’s a pure function of tech and numbers. I just find it incredibly ironic.

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Op, are you familiar with the hedonic treadmill? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

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Nowadays we have first world problems, but I wonder if something comparable existed 500 years ago. Maybe city problems?

Oh no, they didn’t have salmon at the fish market, so I had to buy perch instead.

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Ahaha, definitely had “royal court” and OG bourgeoisie problems.

“Oh no, my servant lost her leg to an infected toenail and now I hear her peg clomping everytime she walks near!”

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That’s comparable to today’s millionaire problems.

Oh no, my Bugatti isn’t blue enough for this event, so I had to drive one of my Lamborghinis instead.

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Jesus, I hope that didn’t happen to you!

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I think it’s more that as qol improved so too did the ability of common people to record their frustrations

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